Act Info:Preamble1 - PROTECTION OF PLANT VARIETIES AND FARMERS-RIGHTS ACT, 2001
Chapter I
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Chapter II
Section3 - Establishment of Authority
Section4 - Meetings of Authority
Section5 - Committees of Authority
Section6 - Officers and other employees of Authority
Section7 - Chairperson of be Chief Executive
Section8 - General functions of Authority
Section9 - Authentication of orders, etc., of Authority
Section10 - Delegation
Section11 - Power of Authority
Section12 - Registry and offices thereof
Section13 - National Register of Plant Varieties
Chapter III
Section14 - Application for registration
Section15 - Registrable varieties
Section16 - Persons who may make application
Section17 - Compulsory variety denomination
Section18 - Form of application
Section19 - Test to be conducted
Section20 - Acceptance of application or amendment thereof
Section21 - Advertisement of applecation
Section22 - Registrar to consider grounds of opposition
Section23 - Registration of essentially derived variety
Chapter IV
Section24 - Issue of certificate of registration
Section25 - Publication of list of varieties
Section26 - Determination of benefit sharing by Authority
Section27 - Breeder to deposit seeds or propagating material
Section28 - Registration to confer right
Section29 - Exclusion of certain varieties
Section30 - Researchers right
Section31 - Special provision relating to application for registration from citizens of convention countries
Section32 - Provisions as to reciprocity
Chapter V
Section33 - Surrender of certificate of registration
Section34 - Revocation of protection on certain grounds
Section35 - Payment of annual fees and forfeiture of registration in default thereof
Section36 - Power to cancel or change registration and to rectify the Register
Section37 - Correction of Register
Section38 - Alteration of denomination of (25 of 1961) registered variety
Chapter VI
Section39 - Farmers rights
Section40 - Certain information to be given in application for registration
Section41 - Rights of communities
Section42 - Protection of innocent infringement
Section43 - Authorisation of farmers variety
Section44 - Exemption from fees
Section45 - Gene Fund
Section46 - Framing of schemes, etc.
Chapter VII
Section47 - Power fo authority to make order for compulsory licence in certain circumstances
Section48 - When requirement public deemed to have not bee satisfied
Section49 - Adjournment of application for grant of compulsory licence
Section50 - Duration of compulsory licence
Section51 - Authority to settle terms and conditions of licence
Section52 - Revocation of compulsory licence
Section53 - Modification of compulsory licence
Chapter VIII
Section54 - Tribunal
Section55 - Composition of Tribunal
Section56 - Appeals to Tribunal
Section57 - Orders of Tribunal
Section58 - Procedure of Tribunal
Section59 - Transitional provision
Chapter IX
Section60 - Grants by Central Government
Section61 - Authority Fund
Section62 - Budget, accounts and audit
Section63 - Financial and administrative powers of Chairperson
Chapter X
Section64 - Infringement
Section65 - Suit for infringement, etc.
Section66 - Relief in suit for infringement
Section67 - Opinion of scientific adviser
Section68 - Prohibition to apply denomination of (25 of 1961) registered variety
Section69 - Meaning falsely applying denominating of (25 of 1961) registered variety
Section70 - Penalty for applying false denomination, etc.
Section71 - Penalty for selling varieties to which false denomination is applied, etc.
Section72 - Penalty for falsely representing (25 of 1961) variety as registered
Section73 - Penalty for subsequent offence
Section74 - No offence in certain cases
Section75 - Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
Section76 - Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused
Section77 - Offences by companies
Chapter XI
Section78 - Protection of security of India
Section79 - Implied warranty on sale of registered variety, etc.
Section80 - Death of party to (25 of 1961) proceeding
Section81 - Right of registered agent and the registered licensee to institute suit
Section82 - Evidence of entry in Register, etc., and things done by the Authority and the Registrar
Section83 - Authority, Registrar and other officers not compellable to production of Register, etc.
Section84 - Document open to public inspection
Section85 - Report of Authority to be placed before Parliament
Section86 - Government to be bound
Section87 - Proceedings before Authority or Registrar
Section88 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section89 - Bar of jurisdiction
Section90 - Members and staff of Authority, etc., to be public servants
Section91 - Exemption from tax on wealth and income
Section92 - Act to have overriding effect
Section93 - Power of Central Government to give directions
Section94 - Power to remove difficulties
Section95 - Power to make regulations
Section96 - Power of Central Government to make rules
Section97 - Rules, regulations and schemes to be laid before Parliament